AND FURROW - IN THE FOUR SEASONS LOUNGES
The reinvented McGill College Avenue is first and foremost a piece of the mountain, of our ancestral forest, completed by a historical and cultural axis on which the waters of the contemporary city flow. The opening from the esplanade reframes the view of Mount Royal as a large living tableau and as the perspective of Montreal's identity. Under the new canopy, niches of biodiversity are introduced in the heart of downtown Montreal, a window on the living world that we must take great care of. The proposal is anchored on the Promenade fleuve-montagne and is positioned as a linear invitation, focused on flexible, non-intensive programming, set back from the teeming crowd on Sainte-Catherine.
The generous esplanade extends uninterrupted along the historic axis of McGill Street. The axis and the relatively steep slope are underlined by a furrow that, when rinsed with a thin stream of rainwater or snowmelt, reflects the sky. The proposed imaginary is reminiscent of the gutter and control basin installations along Olmsted Road on the mountain: the gesture celebrates the natural flow of water from the mountain to the river. The groove takes the form of a swale in the weave of the pavement, with a variable profile and sinuous deployment. It meanders between the pebbles, a collection of furniture pieces both enigmatic and precious, which offer moments of intimacy and places of physical and visual interaction with the new avenue.
Where the wooded area meets the esplanade, the furrow cuts out clearings and passages, places of comfort and lounges. A long bench-bordering unfolds along the wooded beaches. This piece connects and gathers in a great organic gesture all the public places. Gathered in this path, the Jardin des Pins at the foot of the Roddick portal, the Grand Foyer at the crossroads of Sainte-Catherine Street and the Jardin d'O facing the monumental rise of Place Ville-Marie, are destinations that bring the long avenue back to a more human dimension. Together, the different public environments, of varying scales and flexible uses, allow for the gathering of 2 to 400 people.
The scale of the esplanade is monumental, yet humble. On a materially heightened ground, it is the furrow and the pebbles that ensure the historical axis its new identity value, in conjunction with the wooded areas. Between culture and nature, the composition invites passers-by to pause, meet or simply contemplate the views and the contact with nature. Careful planning of the plant cover and management of biodiversity will ensure the sustainability of this new landscape infrastructure.
Fundamental to the concept, the esplanade, furrow and long bench are heated with a radiant system, ensuring the new outdoor space's place as a prime winter destination. The system allows for differentiated snow removal management, but more importantly, it gives snow a place in our downtown. The avenue is also given a unique character thanks to the Grand Foyer, at the crossroads of Sainte-Catherine Street: a centerpiece and the main collective place of winter comfort with its fire ring. Authentic, powerful, risky, fire is the element that has always brought us together. It warms us, feeds us, lights us and inspires our stories. After the winter, the fireplace becomes a small urban amphitheater and one of two water reservoirs during major rain events. During summer heat waves, a drizzle offers a soothing respite. Like the entire proposal, the Grand Foyer is a celebration of the four seasons, but above all of Montreal's resilience to its harsh climate. It is an invitation to step out of Montreal's underground.
Radiant floor, fire net, drizzle, Montreal has the technological capacity on McGill College to bring together innovative components already present on its territory. But in addition to this technology, the plan takes advantage of the existing bioclimatic conditions, shaping the places and their materiality following a sensitive study of the qualities of light and shadows present, according to the seasons. The microclimates are invested, offering comfort to the visitor in summer and winter: for a bite to eat in the shade of a pine tree on a warm August evening, or for a sunbath on a pebble in November.
How about floating paper boats along McGill College Avenue? What if we gathered in the Pine Tree Garden before philosophy class or for mulled wine around the Grand Foyer? How about sitting at a communal table under the autumn leaves, recognizing a chickadee?
McGill College Avenue reinvented is a groove, salons and the celebration of the seasons; it is water and nature in an authentic and diverse urban environment; it is the meeting of the formal and the informal for the pleasure of living Montreal.
HERITAGE AND VIEW ENHANCEMENT
McGill College Avenue is the major avenue of identity in downtown Montreal. Its current form can be said to be a materialization and manifestation of the back-to-the-city discourse that matured in Montreal in the late 1980s. This in itself is significant and still relevant. But beyond its current urban identity, McGill College Avenue and its surroundings form a true cultural landscape, a place that bears witness to the interaction of Montrealers and Montreal's geography, to the evolution of the city, its traditions and the lifestyles of Montrealers.
As a cultural landscape, the urban environment of McGill College has multiple heritage values and characteristic elements that give form to these values. The heritage associated with the avenue is both tangible and intangible: tangible in its layout or its historical connection to the university campus, for example; intangible as a witness to the battles fought for the development of Mount Royal or as a theater for the passage of the seasons, for example.
The Et Sillon concept is sensitively integrated into the cultural universe of the avenue and reinforces its multidimensional heritage environment. The concept reinforces a series of characteristic elements related to the heritage values of the site at different scales:
- Urban Heritage - The creation of a pedestrian esplanade aligned with the historic axis and the Roddick Gateway of McGill University.
- Landscape heritage - The clearing and enhancement of the grand view of Mount Royal; the use of vegetation to emphasize the passage of the seasons; the celebration of the topography of the southern flank of Mount Royal through the flow of water.
- Modern Heritage - A physical and visual relationship with the public space of Place Ville-Marie.
- Commercial Heritage - Supporting the commercial activity intrinsic to the site through public terraces and ensuring commercial overflow to the avenue right-of-way.
- Architectural Heritage - The framing of views of the most significant built heritage and private artworks from alcoves integrated into the development.
- Cultural Heritage - Supporting winter animation through warm amenities.
The furrow is part of the long line of interaction between landscape and urbanity that characterizes the history of McGill College Avenue. The new development, based on a principle of continuity, will form the next step in the urban, commercial, landscape and cultural evolution of this recognized site.
PLANT AND BIODIVERSITY STRATEGY
On this significant axis between Mount Royal and Place Ville-Marie, a dialogue is established between the city and the mountain. Half boulevard, half wooded, the project proposes a dynamic promenade where a green corridor, an extension of the mountain, and an esplanade, of a more urban nature, on the trace of the original street, are mixed together in a contrasting manner. Along this main promenade, views of the mountain and Place Ville-Marie are maintained. They are framed by an alignment of trees with expressive trunks, half urban, half wild, in a dynamic relationship to the landscape, sometimes more filtered, sometimes more open. The two poles at the north and south ends form two thematic gardens, the Jardin des Pins, where students and passers-by can find a certain quietude under the cover of conifers, their feet on the carpet formed by their needles, and the Jardin d'O, where strollers are invited to sit and enjoy the sun while appreciating the view towards Place Ville-Marie.
Building on a current feature that is both tangible and intangible, namely, the singular spring flowering of this avenue, a spatial and temporal dynamic is generated by the tree planting. And Sillon celebrates the seasonal transformations particular to our climate: the plant strategy, through the formation of four distinct environments, makes visible the climatic transitions throughout the year. Thus, through the selection of plants with significant characteristics, the seasonal appeal on McGill College is extended to the four seasons. Spring blooming species added to those already present on the avenue celebrate spring. Summer is represented by species with dense and diverse foliage. Autumn is revealed by the flamboyantly colored deciduous trees. Winter is signified by evergreen conifers that contrast sharply with the snowy landscape. The choices with remarkable seasonal accents are then meshed to ensure an evolutionary transition in the diversity deployed, both biological and aesthetic.
The benefits of human contact with quality green spaces are numerous and relate to physical and mental health as well as the opportunity to grow up in contact with nature. The introduction of living infrastructure in a highly urbanized environment is an essential resilience asset that cities can no longer do without.
(From competitor's text)
(Unofficial automated translation)
AND FURROW - IN THE FOUR SEASONS LOUNGES
The reinvented McGill College Avenue is first and foremost a piece of the mountain, of our ancestral forest, completed by a historical and cultural axis on which the waters of the contemporary city flow. The opening from the esplanade reframes the view of Mount Royal as a large living tableau and as the perspective of Montreal's identity. Under the new canopy, niches of biodiversity are introduced in the heart of downtown Montreal, a window on the living world that we must take great care of. The proposal is anchored on the Promenade fleuve-montagne and is positioned as a linear invitation, focused on flexible, non-intensive programming, set back from the teeming crowd on Sainte-Catherine.
The generous esplanade extends uninterrupted along the historic axis of McGill Street. The axis and the relatively steep slope are underlined by a furrow that, when rinsed with a thin stream of rainwater or snowmelt, reflects the sky. The proposed imaginary is reminiscent of the gutter and control basin installations along Olmsted Road on the mountain: the gesture celebrates the natural flow of water from the mountain to the river. The groove takes the form of a swale in the weave of the pavement, with a variable profile and sinuous deployment. It meanders between the pebbles, a collection of furniture pieces both enigmatic and precious, which offer moments of intimacy and places of physical and visual interaction with the new avenue.
Where the wooded area meets the esplanade, the furrow cuts out clearings and passages, places of comfort and lounges. A long bench-bordering unfolds along the wooded beaches. This piece connects and gathers in a great organic gesture all the public places. Gathered in this path, the Jardin des Pins at the foot of the Roddick portal, the Grand Foyer at the crossroads of Sainte-Catherine Street and the Jardin d'O facing the monumental rise of Place Ville-Marie, are destinations that bring the long avenue back to a more human dimension. Together, the different public environments, of varying scales and flexible uses, allow for the gathering of 2 to 400 people.
The scale of the esplanade is monumental, yet humble. On a materially heightened ground, it is the furrow and the pebbles that ensure the historical axis its new identity value, in conjunction with the wooded areas. Between culture and nature, the composition invites passers-by to pause, meet or simply contemplate the views and the contact with nature. Careful planning of the plant cover and management of biodiversity will ensure the sustainability of this new landscape infrastructure.
Fundamental to the concept, the esplanade, furrow and long bench are heated with a radiant system, ensuring the new outdoor space's place as a prime winter destination. The system allows for differentiated snow removal management, but more importantly, it gives snow a place in our downtown. The avenue is also given a unique character thanks to the Grand Foyer, at the crossroads of Sainte-Catherine Street: a centerpiece and the main collective place of winter comfort with its fire ring. Authentic, powerful, risky, fire is the element that has always brought us together. It warms us, feeds us, lights us and inspires our stories. After the winter, the fireplace becomes a small urban amphitheater and one of two water reservoirs during major rain events. During summer heat waves, a drizzle offers a soothing respite. Like the entire proposal, the Grand Foyer is a celebration of the four seasons, but above all of Montreal's resilience to its harsh climate. It is an invitation to step out of Montreal's underground.
Radiant floor, fire net, drizzle, Montreal has the technological capacity on McGill College to bring together innovative components already present on its territory. But in addition to this technology, the plan takes advantage of the existing bioclimatic conditions, shaping the places and their materiality following a sensitive study of the qualities of light and shadows present, according to the seasons. The microclimates are invested, offering comfort to the visitor in summer and winter: for a bite to eat in the shade of a pine tree on a warm August evening, or for a sunbath on a pebble in November.
How about floating paper boats along McGill College Avenue? What if we gathered in the Pine Tree Garden before philosophy class or for mulled wine around the Grand Foyer? How about sitting at a communal table under the autumn leaves, recognizing a chickadee?
McGill College Avenue reinvented is a groove, salons and the celebration of the seasons; it is water and nature in an authentic and diverse urban environment; it is the meeting of the formal and the informal for the pleasure of living Montreal.
HERITAGE AND VIEW ENHANCEMENT
McGill College Avenue is the major avenue of identity in downtown Montreal. Its current form can be said to be a materialization and manifestation of the back-to-the-city discourse that matured in Montreal in the late 1980s. This in itself is significant and still relevant. But beyond its current urban identity, McGill College Avenue and its surroundings form a true cultural landscape, a place that bears witness to the interaction of Montrealers and Montreal's geography, to the evolution of the city, its traditions and the lifestyles of Montrealers.
As a cultural landscape, the urban environment of McGill College has multiple heritage values and characteristic elements that give form to these values. The heritage associated with the avenue is both tangible and intangible: tangible in its layout or its historical connection to the university campus, for example; intangible as a witness to the battles fought for the development of Mount Royal or as a theater for the passage of the seasons, for example.
The Et Sillon concept is sensitively integrated into the cultural universe of the avenue and reinforces its multidimensional heritage environment. The concept reinforces a series of characteristic elements related to the heritage values of the site at different scales:
- Urban Heritage - The creation of a pedestrian esplanade aligned with the historic axis and the Roddick Gateway of McGill University.
- Landscape heritage - The clearing and enhancement of the grand view of Mount Royal; the use of vegetation to emphasize the passage of the seasons; the celebration of the topography of the southern flank of Mount Royal through the flow of water.
- Modern Heritage - A physical and visual relationship with the public space of Place Ville-Marie.
- Commercial Heritage - Supporting the commercial activity intrinsic to the site through public terraces and ensuring commercial overflow to the avenue right-of-way.
- Architectural Heritage - The framing of views of the most significant built heritage and private artworks from alcoves integrated into the development.
- Cultural Heritage - Supporting winter animation through warm amenities.
The furrow is part of the long line of interaction between landscape and urbanity that characterizes the history of McGill College Avenue. The new development, based on a principle of continuity, will form the next step in the urban, commercial, landscape and cultural evolution of this recognized site.
PLANT AND BIODIVERSITY STRATEGY
On this significant axis between Mount Royal and Place Ville-Marie, a dialogue is established between the city and the mountain. Half boulevard, half wooded, the project proposes a dynamic promenade where a green corridor, an extension of the mountain, and an esplanade, of a more urban nature, on the trace of the original street, are mixed together in a contrasting manner. Along this main promenade, views of the mountain and Place Ville-Marie are maintained. They are framed by an alignment of trees with expressive trunks, half urban, half wild, in a dynamic relationship to the landscape, sometimes more filtered, sometimes more open. The two poles at the north and south ends form two thematic gardens, the Jardin des Pins, where students and passers-by can find a certain quietude under the cover of conifers, their feet on the carpet formed by their needles, and the Jardin d'O, where strollers are invited to sit and enjoy the sun while appreciating the view towards Place Ville-Marie.
Building on a current feature that is both tangible and intangible, namely, the singular spring flowering of this avenue, a spatial and temporal dynamic is generated by the tree planting. And Sillon celebrates the seasonal transformations particular to our climate: the plant strategy, through the formation of four distinct environments, makes visible the climatic transitions throughout the year. Thus, through the selection of plants with significant characteristics, the seasonal appeal on McGill College is extended to the four seasons. Spring blooming species added to those already present on the avenue celebrate spring. Summer is represented by species with dense and diverse foliage. Autumn is revealed by the flamboyantly colored deciduous trees. Winter is signified by evergreen conifers that contrast sharply with the snowy landscape. The choices with remarkable seasonal accents are then meshed to ensure an evolutionary transition in the diversity deployed, both biological and aesthetic.
The benefits of human contact with quality green spaces are numerous and relate to physical and mental health as well as the opportunity to grow up in contact with nature. The introduction of living infrastructure in a highly urbanized environment is an essential resilience asset that cities can no longer do without.
(From jury report)
(Unofficial automated translation)
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